Notable Christian Brothers
- Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice, founder of the Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers
- James Dominic Burke, Limerick-born teacher of science subjects at North Monastery in Cork
- Donal Healy (Baile ort Tim)
- John Philip Holland, inventor of the motor powered submarine, who had been a Christian Brother as a young man
- Paul Francis Keaney
- Vic Larkin - Hero of the Australian Brothers
- Eamon McGrotty, former Christian Brother who died in the Spanish Civil War fighting on the Republican side
- Paul Nunan
- Michael Paul Riordan, second Superior-General of the congregation
- Patrick Ambrose Treacy, leader of the first Australian community of Christian Brothers
- Robert Cal Whiting
Read more about this topic: Congregation Of Christian Brothers
Famous quotes containing the words notable, christian and/or brothers:
“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“That is the great end of empires before God, to be Catholic and draw nations into their Catholicism. But our empire is less and less Christian as it grows.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“When you gonna get married, Marty? You should be ashamed of yourself. All your brothers and sisters, younger than you, they get married and got the children. I meet your mother in the produce store. She say to me “Eh, you know a nice girl for my boy Marty?” What’s the matter with you? That’s no way!”
—Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)